BNP Paribas Asset Management today announced the appointment of Alaa Bushehri as head of emerging markets debt (EMD), with effect from 1st March 2024.
Based in London, she will report to Olivier de Larouzière, CIO Fixed Income.
Bushehri has been with the BNP Paribas Group for two decades years. For the past 11 years, she has been the head of emerging markets corporates within the EMD.
In this role, she was responsible for alpha decisions related to hard and local currency emerging market corporate risk.
She joined FFTW in London as a portfolio analyst in 2007, from CIB in Bahrain.
Commenting on her appointment, Larouzière said: “With her extensive knowledge of the business and her long tenure in the EMD team, Alaa is perfectly placed to further progress our extended EMD platform, which now includes the local fixed income investment teams across different emerging regions (Brazil, Indonesia, Poland, and Turkey).”
